Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1988 (ICPSR 9337)

This data collection provides annual data on prisoners
under a sentence of death and on those whose offense sentences were
commuted or vacated. Information is available on basic
sociodemographic characteristics such as age, sex, race and ethnicity,
marital status at time of imprisonment, level of education, and state
of incarceration. Criminal history data include prior felony
convictions for criminal homicide and legal status at the time of the
capital offense. Additional information is provided on those inmates
removed from death row ... (more info)

This data collection provides annual data on prisoners
under a sentence of death and on those whose offense sentences were
commuted or vacated. Information is available on basic
sociodemographic characteristics such as age, sex, race and ethnicity,
marital status at time of imprisonment, level of education, and state
of incarceration. Criminal history data include prior felony
convictions for criminal homicide and legal status at the time of the
capital offense. Additional information is provided on those inmates
removed from death row by yearend 1988 and those inmates who were
executed.

Guidelines for Applying for Restricted Data

Before you begin an application you will need the following information to complete the form

General Requirements:

appointment at research institution; appointment must be under the jurisdiction of the receiving institution

degree requirements (possibly doctorate)

Must be submitted:

project description

IRB approval

approved security plan

roster of research and IT staff who can access or view the data or computer where data are hosted.

confidentiality pledges for all people on roster

Some require:

CV's

Access to these data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a Restricted Data Use Agreement, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research.

Any public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public.
Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-1988. ICPSR09337-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-11-12. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09337.v1

(1) Information collected prior to 1972 is in many cases
incomplete and reflects vestiges in the reporting process. (2) The inmate
identification numbers were assigned by the Bureau of Census and have no
purpose outside this dataset.

Methodology

Data Source:

NPS-8 data collection instrument, "Report of Inmates
Under Sentence of Death," which was sent to state and federal
prisons

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1990-05-16

Version History:

2008-11-12 Minor changes have been made to the metadata.

2008-10-30 All parts have been moved to restricted access and are available only using the restricted access procedures.

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 3 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 3 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.

1997-05-30 SAS data definition statements are now available
for this collection, and the SPSS data definition statements were
updated.

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